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Ken Paxton: “McCain Feingold was designed to protect even terrible…”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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Texas AG Ken Paxton GOES OFF on "RINO Incumbent" John Cornyn Ahead of Senate Primary Showdown

Published | Video Starts at 09:06

If you're a challenger, you're limited to 7,000 a person, which is really difficult to raise enough money to run in Texas. But that's the way they designed it. McCain Feingold was designed to protect even terrible senators that are representing a state like Texas, designed to make sure they never lost. But this one is going to be different. John Cornyn, with all that money, with all those lies, is still behind and may finish third. Yeah, that would be embarrassing. (09:06–09:15)

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Asserts that the McCain-Feingold Act was designed to protect incumbent senators from losing elections.

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